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Bettina Jerome-Eshuis
Cloud & AI Adoption · ex-Google, ex-Microsoft, ex-VMware

The technology is never the hard part.

I'm a systems thinker who builds the AI strategy enterprise teams keep using. Tools, plans, and the metrics that prove it worked.

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Case studies

Outcomes, measured in people.

Every piece of work I write up the same way: the situation, what I changed, and the number that proved it. Not licenses sold or hours billed. Whether the people expected to use the thing used it, and whether the risk went down. Two from Google, in that format. The numbers are mine, from the data at the time.

Enterprise accounts · Google, 2022 to 2026Try the rebuild

ATLAS: nobody learns about a Sev-1 from the customer

Situation
Enterprise accounts where the queue was the risk. Manual queue-checking, scattered tabs, and customers telling us something was wrong before we knew.
What I did
Built ATLAS: Salesforce case data into BigQuery, SQL monitors that fire the second an SLA threshold is breached, Vertex AI to say why a case stalled and who holds the next move, and a morning brief and live alerts in Slack.
Result
More than 30% fewer formal customer escalations, sustained. Still running at Google as of my last day. Rebuilt here as a browser tool you can load your own queue into.
Enablement · Google CloudAdoption

Mandatory GenAI training, unblocked for 300+ colleagues

Situation
A mandatory GenAI badge program: 30 to 40 hours of timed, Python-based labs whose directions didn't work as written. Hundreds of technical and non-technical colleagues stalled against a fixed deadline.
What I did
Wrote the step-by-step guide with the working fix for every broken lab step, shared it across Google Cloud, then built a Gemini agent carrying the same notes so people got unblocked without waiting for me, including while I was on vacation.
Result
Adopted by more than 300 people. Completion time down from 30 to 40 hours to roughly 10. Recognition from the VP and Global Head of Professional Services and the global program lead for AI/ML technical enablement.
bettinajerome.tech/readiness
07 / 08Staff trust
weight13%

When AI comes up at work, most people feel…

1Worried about jobs
2Wary
3Neutral to curious
4Keen to try

Do staff have a real say in how AI is used in their work?

1None
2Told after decisions
3Asked for input
4Co-designing it
← BudgetNext: Change fatigue →
LIVE SCORE · EXAMPLE16 / 16
42
of 100Not yet

Staff trust scored 1 on at least one question. Address fear before anything else.

Most likely to stall
Staff trust17
Skills17
One next step

Before any tool, hold an open session on what AI will not replace, and invite the people doing the work to help shape the pilot.

CopyPDF
Runs in the browser·Nothing stored·No sign-up

Measures use, not licenses.

The Adoption Tracker mirrors the fields of the Claude Enterprise Analytics API and shows which teams adopted and which need support. Sample data, fictional org.

bettinajerome.tech/adoption · sample data
Overviewfictional org · 400 assigned seats · 17 invites pending · sample data
Weekly active20651.5% of 400 seats
Daily, 7-day avg11154% of weekly actives, each day
Monthly active25163% of seats
Change · 90d+31.9points weekly active
Is it sticking?target 60% weekly
4 Jul17 Aug1 Oct
Who adoptedlast 7 days
Engineering77%Adopted Customer Support67%Adopted Marketing63%Adopted Operations41%Growing Finance39%Growing Sales30%Needs support HR23%Needs support Legal16%Needs support
Sample engagement · fictional company

Pilot to production, written down.

A 90-day plan to take a 15-agent pilot to all 220 agents of a customer care team. Discovery questions, a stakeholder map, an operating model, six governance gates, fourteen champions, and the metrics that decide scale, fix or stop.

See the 90-day plan
engagement.plan · larkspur · fictionalday 90 decision
WK 1–2Discover
WK 3–4Foundations
WK 5–8Wave 1 · 80
WK 9–13Wave 2 · 125
14
champions
6
governance gates
11
metrics tracked
SCALEFIXSTOP
See the 90-day plan
Newest tool

Built in the open.

Working projects that already run but are still moving. The questions change, the weights change, the copy changes. Use them anyway, and tell me where they break.

Working tool · v1.0 · updated 29 Oct 2026

AI Security & Scaling Readiness Scorer

Is your security setup ready for AI, and for the growth AI is about to cause? Sixteen questions drawn from NIST CSF 2.0 and the CIS Controls v8.1, industry overlays for healthcare, finance and government in the US, the EU or both, and a platform check for Claude or Gemini. Other industries are not scored yet.

8 areas · 16 questions · score and PDF made in your browserScore your setup →
How I work

Human first, AI second.

01

Listen

Map the people, the incentives and the fear before touching a tool. The people who will use it get the most airtime.

02

Score

Measure readiness honestly, with the team in the room. Staff trust gates the result. A high score with low trust means slow down.

03

Pilot

One use case, a baseline, a timeline, a named owner. Watch the signals weekly. Stop is an acceptable answer, and saying so early is why people trust the rollout.

04

Hand over

Leave the team owning the policy, the metrics and the next wave. The guardrails stay in place after I leave.

Agents

An agent that does the quiet work.

One agent, my Chief of Staff, running on Claude under five rules. It drafts, checks and flags. I decide and I publish.

~/chief-of-staff
01Daily briefVerified stories every morning. Sources traced to the original, conflicts flagged for me to decide.running · daily
02Post draftsDrafts in my voice under five rules. Nothing publishes until I approve it.running · I approve
03Corrections logEvery miss, mine or its own, is written down with the rule that fixes it.running
04Pilot EvaluatorGo, fix or stop, with evidence. Next in the queue.next up
briefing.log · 29 Oct 2026
$chief-of-staff --brief 2026-10-29
askedby bee: daily brief isn't updated → 7am run saved nothing · rebuilt in session
scannedtechcrunch · the register · web search
searchedrepresentation beat · cultural impact beat → representation empty this week, said so
picked6 stories · social impact · policy · cultural impact · commercial · environment
sources28 listed · outlets repeating one story counted as one
flagged1 number conflict (microsoft emissions, 62% vs 54%) → held for human decision
dropped1 vendor figure (gartner, 3%) with no method line → wire only
logged0 corrections · 2 standing rules worked
saved13:12 ET · 6 stories
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Daily brief · Thursday 29 October 2026

What I'm reading today.

Picked each morning by my Chief of Staff, my agent. Read by me.

A short list of AI stories each day, chosen for people who run adoption, governance and customer work, not for people who build models. The agent scans the feeds, traces every claim back to its original source, counts twelve outlets repeating one report as one source, and flags anything the sources disagree on for me to decide. Each headline links to the original reporting. It's where most of my posts start.

bettinajerome.tech/brief
Thursday 29 October 2026
6 stories · 28 sources checked · 1 conflict flagged
01Parents sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter off her seizure medicationTechCrunch · 27 Oct 2026Social impactThe complaint says the chatbot drafted the taper and advised silence toward her doctor. The family's case, per TechCrunch: medical advice sat as a default users could override, when it could have been a hard limit. A hard limit is a setting, and a setting has an owner. 02Five GDPR complaints say Scale AI tracks the workers who train its customers' modelsnoyb · 27 Oct 2026PolicyTrackers sending worker data to TikTok, LinkedIn and Facebook every few seconds, per noyb. Scale calls the claims unfounded. Annotation vendors sit on the vendor-risk line of any AI supply chain. Ask what they collect from the people doing the work. 03Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songsThe Register · 27 Oct 2026 · filed 23 OctCultural impactLyrics this time, and the output side too. The complaint quotes Claude on its own work: “These renders keep landing very close to the originals.” Anthropic says it will defend the case fully. Disclosure: this brief is built with Claude, Anthropic's model. 04Bank of America tells customers not to hand their login to an AI agentTechCrunch · 27 Oct 2026CommercialOne source, confirmed by the bank's spokesperson. The rule in the email is the enterprise rule in plain words: an agent gets its own access, scoped and logged, never a person's password. 05UK ministers met 137 companies about data centres, and no environmental groupSpotlight on Corruption · 27 Oct 2026EnvironmentA campaign group's reading of the government's own transparency releases, July 2024 to June 2026. The method is copyable wherever meeting records are public: read who got in the room before the zones were drawn. 06Microsoft shareholders will vote on showing the climate plan, with emissions still risingThe Register · 28 Oct 2026 · vote 8 DecEnvironmentTrillium puts emissions 62% above the 2020 baseline. The Register's figures from Microsoft's own report work out nearer 54%. Flagged, not settled. The vote asks for the plan, not a new promise.
Links go to the original reporting. Sources are traced before anything is listed.Updated 13:12 ET

Writing

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About

I build the strategy, then I stay for the implementation.

I’m a technology leader and AI strategist with more than a decade of experience across Google, Microsoft, VMware, and Dell.

I work at the intersection of AI transformation, enterprise technology, security, governance, and large-scale deployment, helping organizations move from strategy to systems that work in the real world.

I’ve worked with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, supporting complex enterprise environments and large-scale customer and partner initiatives. At one point, I managed a $1.6 billion account portfolio.

My work sits across the full path:

Strategy → Architecture → Implementation → Security → Governance → Adoption → Scale

With AI, that becomes:

AI opportunity → Workflow → Design → Build → Test → Deploy → Operate → Measure → Improve

I’m interested in what happens after the demo.

  • How does AI actually get deployed?
  • How does it connect to data, tools, workflows, and controls?
  • How do organizations make it secure and governable?
  • How do people actually use it?
  • How do you know it is creating value?
  • And how do you build systems people can rely on every day?

I’ve also spent years mentoring startups, founders, nonprofits, and emerging technology teams, helping turn technical ideas into practical strategies and execution plans.

I’m the founder of Black Women in the Age of AI (BWAI Studio), where my focus expands from enterprise implementation to a larger question:

How do we make sure people have the knowledge, capability, representation, and agency to shape the future of AI?

This site is a portfolio of that work.

Technology is only useful when it works in the real world.

The longer version
01$1.6Bcustomer commit owned at once
02Google · Microsoft · VMwareFortune 100 and 500
03BWAI. StudioFounder · Per Scholas alum
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Post-sales, after the contract is signed. Principal, senior and founding roles in AI transformation, strategy, deployment, implementation and governance, and in customer and partner success.

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